Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v5 6/9] libxc: create unmapped initrd in domain builder if supported

[Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>]

On 30/11/15 11:34, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Mon, 2015-11-30 at 11:23 +0100, Juergen Gross wrote:
>> On 30/11/15 11:20, Wei Liu wrote:
>>> On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 08:35:02AM +0100, Juergen Gross wrote:
>>>>  
>>>>      /* initrd parameters as specified in start_info page */
>>>> -    unsigned long initrd_start;
>>>> -    unsigned long initrd_len;
>>>> +    uint64_t initrd_start;
>>>> +    uint64_t initrd_len;
>>>>  
>>>
>>> I think these should be of type xen_vaddr_t. Doesn't make a difference
>>> in the end though.
>>
>> xen_vaddr_t seems not to be appropriate. It can be either a virtual
>> address or a pfn.
> 
> Did you mean a virtual address or a physical _address_? Potentially mixing
> addresses and frame numbers in a single variable seems liable to be
> confusing, at best.

No, it's really a pfn. And this is part of the stable interface between
hypervisor and the pv-domU since more than 5 years now.


Juergen


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